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From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: removing balloon help....
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Date: 12 Jun 91 01:29:31 GMT
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In article <14011@goofy.Apple.COM>, rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe) writes:
> In article <676362431.27@egsgate.FidoNet.Org> 
> Acquisition.By.Association@f98.n250.z1.FidoNet.Org (Acquisition By 
> Association) writes:
> > So tell me, has anybody sucessfully removed the balloon help icon
> > from the menu bar?
> 
> I still can't understand why anyone wants to do this. The balloon help 
> icon will automatically vanish from the menu bar if the foreground app's 
> menus crowd it. And that menu is destined to be the standard place to look 
> for any system 7-savvy app's online help: not just Balloon Help, but real 
> menu items like the "Finder Shortcuts" item that is there when the Finder 
> is frontmost.

Not everyone wants the menu. I don't.
I don't have time to avoid it, let alone use it.

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